ATG Programming Guide

Improving Page Compilation Performance

The first time a page is requested, it undergoes several conversions: from JSP/JHTML to Java code to HTML. That first transformation from JSP/JHTML to Java code causes a slight delay in performance that is easily avoided by precompiling your pages. There are several ways to precompile all files in a directory:

Use the Java compiler provided with your application server to precompile JSPs

You can precompile individual JSPs at application startup by specifying them in your Web application deployment descriptor. Here is an example of what you’d add for a page called MyPage.jsp to web.xml in enclosing <webapp> tags: